Lyrics
Heaven come down
Jesus come now
Please invade our space
Our hearts
Embrace your love
Heaven come down
Jesus come now
Please invade our space
Our hearts
Embrace your love
Change my heart, Oh God, when You come
Change my mind, Oh God, when You come
I don't want to be the same when You come
I don't want to live that way when You come
Change my heart, Oh God, when You come
Change my mind, Oh God, when You come
I don't want to be the same when You come
I don't want to live that way when You come
(So change us, change us, change us)
Change my heart, Oh God, when You come (Oh God)
Change my mind, Oh God, when You come (when You come)
I don't want to be the same when You come
I don't want to live that way when You come
So Heaven will you come
Jesus will you come
We need more of you
So much more of you
So Heaven will you come
Jesus will you come
We need more of you
So much more of you
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Meaning & Inspiration
Heaven Come Down is a prayer for the presence of Jesus to bring inward change. Its opening appeal asks heaven to enter ordinary space and fill human hearts with divine love. The repeated requests to change the heart and mind make transformation the central concern. The song does not seek a passing spiritual experience; it voices dissatisfaction with remaining the same and asks for a different pattern of life when God comes near.\n\nThat emphasis closely matches biblical prayers for a clean heart and renewed spirit, as well as the call for the mind to be transformed. The appeal for heaven to come also recalls the prayer for the will of God to be done on earth as in heaven. Repetition gives the lyric a communal, persistent quality, moving between personal confession and a wider plea for change. Its final desire for more of Jesus gathers the themes together: divine presence is welcomed not as an end in itself, but as the source of renewed thought, reordered desire, and a life shaped by holy love.
Related Scripture
- Psalm 51:10 The psalm asks God to create a clean heart and renew the spirit.
- Romans 12:2 Paul connects transformation with the renewing of the mind.
- Matthew 6:10 The prayer asks for the will of God to be done on earth as in heaven.